[Qt5-feedback] Qt5's qmake

[Konstantin Tokarev]

12.05.2011, 21:27, "BRM" <bm_witness at yahoo.com>:
> might I add that it needs to be able to function recursively very well.
>
> Presently I have a number of projects where to keep things simple, I use sub-folders to manage portions of the code.
> For example, in a protocol library I push chunks of the protocol (e.g. calibration) into its own folder.
> However, presently I have to be very careful about the naming of all the files throughout the entire project as no two of them can be the same; otherwise QMake will build both, but only one object file will be kept for linking. This is a rather simple thing that QMake should be able to handle internally.
>
> Note: We didn't want "yet another tool", so CMake didn't make it into the picture. Otherwise we might be on CMake as opposed to QMake. I generally like QMake; but there are a few major short-comings, like the above, that could really improve the ability to work with it.
>

I also like QMake in general; but syntax of custom function definition is unintuitive - it's difficult to remember where $$ should be used and where should not; it also lacks traditional definition of function arguments. I also miss CMake-like macros.



-- 
Regards,
Konstantin